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Why We Need Genealogists.com • About 28 billion people have lived on the earth since A.D. 1500 • 60 billion historical records exist offline, located around the world in numerous archives • Only 7% of historical records are online • Most online records are for North and South America & Europe • Will take 200-300…

Maps are very useful when piecing together your family history. They can help you gain a wider perspective of your ancestor’s life, community, and environment. Creating a map and adding important places as you research will help you interpret your findings and identify further avenues of research as you move back in time when boundaries…

Are you fresh out of genealogy resources and still missing important details about your ancestor? Your answer night very well be waiting among the historical documents, histories, or personal papers in the thousands of archives located around the world. I have a few unanswered questions myself that have been lingering too long. I have found…

In “Part 1: What Can We Glean from Oral Histories,” I promised to share some of the amazing discoveries I have made through oral histories. I will illustrate how I recovered one ancestor’s story without having anyone’s recollection of him. No Personal Recollections After I interviewed my mother about her grandfather, Rev. Lafayette Franklin Vance (1861-1952),…

Headstone for Anderson Chick (1860-1903) and Elenia Coleman Chick (1860-1933) Did you jump right into researching your family history before gathering the information your family members have to share? Not a whole lot of emphasis is placed on oral history because sometimes details fade from memory or stories turn out to be family fables. …

Opportunities Are you looking to grow your family history business? Are you looking to do more family history projects? Now you can. Genealogists.com is growing rapidly. In order to facilitate and manage this unprecedented growth, we are actively seeking highly skilled, expert researchers, project managers, and sales managers. Ideal candidates will have several years of paid experience selling,…

Are you trying to move back one more generation on your family tree to identify your ancestor’s parents? Here are a few places that you may find their names. Census Trace your ancestor as far back on the census as you can. It is best to look at every census, moving back 10 years at…

Displaying What’s New in FamilySearch and Ancestry In technical documentation, we often use Revision Bars to indicate content that is new or updated. These bars appear in the outside margin of the page or screen next to all content that has changed. How I wish FamilySearch and Ancestry.com did the same thing. If they used…

Are you stumped because you cannot figure out your ancestor’s name? There can be several reasons for this, including: Someone had poor handwriting, and you cannot read the name. Only the first two initials were recorded, and you have no idea what they stand for. You only knew your ancestor’s nickname, you would not recognize…

A long time ago in a kingdom far away there lived a fair maiden by the name of Fnu MNU. She married a handsome young knight named Sir Arthur LNU and thus she became Fnu (MNU) LNU. Wait! Stop! Does this sound a bit like a page out of YOUR family tree? Are you spending…

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Trace.com is the world’s largest family history research firm with over 4,000 professional genealogists as well as hundreds of subject matter experts (scholars, private investigators, professors, clergy, and archivists). We are not limited to the small percentage of records that are online. We are not limited to just one or two genealogists. We are not limited to a few local repositories. Instead, we access the world’s records wherever they are located and in whatever form–whether online or offline, including the over 90% of records that FamilySearch estimates are not online.